--- David Weinshenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lunar soil has silicon, oxygen, and a couple of > useful metals. > No carbon, nitrogen, or hydrogen, though. > > You could _build_ stuff with local resources; > you would need imports to actually establish a > biosphere.
To paraphrase: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Your unspent hypergolics: N2H4 and N04, Your toxic wastes and sewage and more, Send these, and your homeless, tempest-tost to me. And from them, N2, H2, and Carbon I'll gleen." :) I am of the belief that you don't require tons of atmospheric Nitrogen to run a successful colony. Most plants don't require gaseous nitrogen to subsist. The big thing is to keep the nitrogen fixed in the soil. Carbon shouldn't outgas unless it's in the form of CO2, which generally is a very small component of the atmosphere anyway (people start getting headaches above the normal 1 to 2% in the atmosphere as it is.) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
